Home Education Matters

This second part of our discussion on the US system and how it can be applied to UK home educators sees me chat with Helen Harrold and Jenni Cassidy about their AP offering. Providing an option for British home educated children to combine a High School Diploma with APs in order to attend the very best universities in Britain, join us as we discuss the benefits of AP qualifications compared to A levels. [This podcast is very much a labour of love, but it's also both a costly and time consuming process ... if you'd like to Buy Me a Coffee - no obligation at all! - you can do so here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HomeEducation]

Michele Holmes is on a mission to bring the High School Diploma to UK home educators. Join me as I chat with Michele about why she thinks the American system is perfectly suited to British home educators, and how it equates across to our UK system of GCSEs. No exams, broader range of subjects and parental assessments ... sounds too good to be true? Have a listen and find out!Breaking news ... I managed to wangle listeners to the podcast a $75 discount using code HOMEED75 at https://homeschooldirective.com/

Have you removed your child from a traumatic school experience?Do you want to know how to heal your child but still support their learning at home?Worried about how to allow recovery time for your child whilst still doing enough to keep your Local Authority team happy?Struggling to re-engage your child with their learning?Today I talk to Karen Bonthron who works with the LA to support home educated children and it's a fascinating discussion full of advice on re-engaging your child with their learning journey.[This podcast is very much a labour of love, but it's also both a costly and time consuming process ... if you'd like to Buy Me a Coffee - no obligation at all! - you can do so here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HomeEducation]

Exams in the UK are all about hoop jumping. And there's nothing home educators like less than pointless bureaucratic hoop jumping! But don't worry. We've got the ultimate guide to hack the system and make exams as seamless and easy as you dare. From Environmental Management to Edexcel English Language and beyond, we've got some amazing hacks to get you through exams.

Today I'm chatting with Jemma about how best to help your child at home with maths. Maths is all about balance ... no, not balancing equations but learning how to balance rote learning with understanding, fun with efficiency, and freedom with repetition. Join us and learn some great methods to facilitate your child's maths as part of your home educating journey.

Check out our in depth chat with unschooling expert Heidi Steel. It's a fascinating insight into this child led approach to education, detailing both the challenges and the benefits of partnering with your child to choose how, what, when, where, what and why they learn.

Home educating? Why stick to the usual schooly curriculum subjects? These two subjects are 100% exam assessed with fascinating and relevant content for our home schooled / home educated teens, and so are fabulous options for home educators wanting to sit GCSEs as external candidates.

Autonomous parenting? Partnership parenting? Unschooling? Radical unschooling? Come and join Sarah and I as we chat all things autonomy, respect, tolerance and red lines. Some ideas are challenging, and some controversial, but they're all fascinating! Check out this super fun rollercoaster of a chat through the world of free flowing home education.

Join Diane and I recapping some of our highlights (and lowlights!) of 2022 as home educating / home schooling families, and looking ahead to our goals and New Year resolutions for 2023.

For our final episode following a typical home education day, Diane chats to Rosa. Removed from school a few months ago, they discuss the problems they encountered at her secondary school and the impact it had on them all. But don't worry, it has a happy ending!